Wrapping-machine.



No. 870,501. PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907.

I S. E. PARNHAM.

WRAPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

SCHUYLER E. FARNHAM, OF RAOINE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

NATIONAL MFG. & MAILING (10., OF RAGINE, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCON- SIN.

WRAPPING-MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed July 31. 1905- Serial No. 271,910-

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, SCHUYLER E. FARNHAM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wrapping- Machines, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed, its object being to insure retention of a newspaper or other publication in a l wrapper and to improve the detail of the wrapping machine disclosed in my now allowed application for patent filed July 1S, 1904, Serial No. 217,007.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a vertical longitudinal section view of a fragment of my improved wrapping machine, and Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view of a portion of the machine.

Referring by letter to the drawings K, L, represent the rollers and Q the plate over which publications are successively fed in my improved machine, and one of a plurality of the usual publication-stops j is shown on said plate. Below the rollers aforesaid are the rollers I, M, of the machine, over which the publication wrappers are successively fed to partly rest on a support that consists of endless tapes h run on rollers N, O, of said machine, one of the usual wrapper-stops i being shown depending from the stationary bar P to which it is fastened. In Fig. l, a wrapper is indicated by heavy black line partly between the rollers I, M, and a publication is indicated by full lines folded between said rollers and the rollers K, L.

In pivotal connection with an under lug b of the plate Q is a link c in like connection with a lever d loose on a spindle e having its bearings in the sides of a receptacle f for paste or other suitable adhesive material, this receptacle being provided with an arm g fastened to one of the arms Y to which the folding blade Z of the machine is attached. A roller is is fast on the spindle e to be partly in the receptacle f and partly out of the same at the lower end thereof, and a pawl m in connection with the lever d engages a ratchet-wheel p that is also fast on said spindle.

The folding-blade arm Y is fast on its arbor Y, and the anti-friction roller hung in the lower end of said arm opposes a cam A with which the main shaft B of the machine is provided. The cam-wheel B fast on said shaft is engaged by an anti-friction roller carried by the lever O, and the link n connects said lever with the shank of the sector F that meshes with the offset sectorend L of the plate M fast on the arbor Q and constituting therewith part of the rocker of the machine, this rocker, its operation and the means for discharging a wrapper-enveloped publication therefrom having been fully disclosed in the application aforesaid.

When the folding-blade is swung down to engage a publication with its wrapper and to start the feed of both to the rocker, the lever d and pawl m are actuated to impart rotary motion to the paste-roller 7c, and by descent of this roller, with the receptacle in which it is hung, a dab of adhesive material from said receptacle is deposited on said wrapper, preferably in position to come into contact with the margin of said publication just prior to the time both clear the rollers I, M, aforesaid. The means for distribution of the adhesive material may be indefinitely varied without departure from the scope of my invention and it is within that scope to feed said material to the publications instead of the wrappers.

It is to be understood that the application of the adhesive material, as above described is only intended to unite the publication to the wrapper in such a manner that said publication cannot slip out of said wrapper when the latter is finally secured, by pasting a flap of same on the remainder thereof, as has been set forth in the application above noted, the adhesion of the aforesaid wrapper to the aforesaid publication being a preliminary to another pasting operation not herein shown or described because it constitutes no part of the present invention.

Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

1. A publication wrapping machine comprising a roller feedmecha'nism, means for folding a wrapper and publication one on another into the feed-mechanism, and means cooperative with the foldingunechanism for depositing ad hesive material intermediate of the wrapper and publication coincident with the folding operation on same, the operation of said feed-niechanism resulting in adhesion ol said wrapper and publication preliminary to enveloping; the latter in the former.

2. A publication wrapping machine having a foldinghlade, a receptacle for adhesive material in connection with an arm of said blade, a feed-roller extending through the lower portion of the receptacle and having a ratchetwheel in connection therewith, a pawl engaging the ratchetwheel, and a suspended pawbcontrolling lever.

3. A publication wrapping machine having a folding blade, a receptacle for adhesive material in connection with an arm of said blade, 21 feedroller extending through the lower portion of the receptacle and having a ratchetwheel in connection therewith, a pawl engaging the ratchetwheel, a pawlcontrolling lever loose at one end on -the spindle of said roller, and a link by which the other end of the lever is suspended from a wrapper support in said machine.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Racine in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

SCHUYLER E. FARNHAM.

Witnesses LOUIS E. HALL, J. G. MEACHEM, Jr. 

